Ratanbai: A High-Caste Child-Wife (Oxford India Classic Reissue)

Description

Ratanbai is the poignant story of a Marathi Brahmin adolescent's experience of an East-West culture clash in her own home. Ratanbai's father is a westernized lawyer while her mother and relatives are deeply entrenched in tradition. The novel spans the heroine's life from early childhood through to child-marriage and into maturity.